One of the greatest eye-catchers of the S60 stand at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco definitely has been the S60 RC truck. This little vehicle is controlled with a Python-based application, the Shaker Racer, on a Nokia N95. The application uses the accelometer of the Nokia N95 to communicate with the truck over Bluetooth. Check out the video below where Oren explains how it works.

This is a great example of the open source innovation that Python for S60 enables. As you see, it is a useful tool for prototyping applications and experimenting with new development ideas. Oren has kindly promised to blog more about this. If you have any questions about the car, please feel free to ask by leaving your comments here!

A couple of years ago, I wrote in the S60 Multimedia blog about my initial experiments to build some sort of S60 client for last.fm, that would at least collect information about what you and your friends are listening to. The comments to that post quickly moved on to what was really needed - an S60 client to scrobble (i.e. upload) info about what you're playing to your last.fm account.

As you can see at the end of the comments, the developer community has responded with at least two scrobbler clients for S60. Aspyplayer is a Python scrobbler client that includes its own music player, and uploads your listening history to last.fm as you listen. If you're looking for a non-Python option, there's Mobbler, a native S60 application that stores your history for batch uploading to last.fm.

Thanks to Symbian-guru and larryni.me.uk for alerting me to these latest developments.

--Oren

To encourage unique concepts in mobile gaming, Nokia is in the search of the brightest, most creative and groundbreaking ideas for game concepts in Mobile Games Innovation Challenge. The competition is open to game designer and developer companies of all backgrounds and all levels worldwide.

Mobile Games Innovation Challenge seeks to drive mobile gaming worldwide to the next level of excitement and innovation, relying on the features and functionalities of N-Gage compatible devices and Symbian-based S60 devices as well as Series 40 devices from Nokia.

More information can be found from www.developer.n-gage.com/innovation

Hi everyone. I'm Oren Levine, from the S60 Marketing team. Saara invited me to join the See Into S60 blog to post from time to time about what we in S60 offer to software developers. Of course, S60.com and Forum Nokia have plenty of detailed information about the languages and tools that you can use with S60; I'll use this space to write about more general issues, and announce upcoming events and presentations.

Speaking of which... I'll be at the SD (Software Development) West conference in California next week, along with folks from Forum Nokia and our S60 browser team, to help deliver two sessions about mobile development and S60 to the collected developer audience. We have two sessions on the agenda: a Birds of a Feather (BoF) session to discuss how to take advantage of open source software in mobile platforms, and a free in-depth tutorial on Open C and how you can use it to port open source code to S60 and Symbian.

-Oren